The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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Okay. That's good to be with you.

And maybe just the chat is enough to have a sense that there's a kind of field here.

Animated by

goodwill,

the longing for less suffering.

So maybe we just begin and take our posture a little bit of sweetness on the tongue.

A little bit of goodness rippling through our body, the goodness that is called Sangha. We come to be moved by goodness, moved by our own goodness out of others, by the path.

And Dharma is a kind of progressive sensitization to goodness.

The light from that star grows brighter and brighter over the years, decades maybe of practice. Thank you. The Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. As we come to come into a sense of goodness, the ordinarness of it.

So we come to trust it,

know that it's there for us.

As we call on.

We start to become a little bit less intimidated by the future.

A little deeper sense of security. and maybe it feels more natural just to put

complexity of life down rest. drawing the line clearly around what's in the focus space and what's background.

And then drawing that line around, say, the sensations of our breathing, sound, the body,

a phrase, drawing that line, we're not turning everything outside that circle into an enemy.

We just treat it all like a phone ringing that we know is not for us,

as Ajadjan Brah said. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. Thank you. The When the past doesn't feel like it conceals any secrets

and our future's intimidating.

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